By OLA MODUPE, Lagos- An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Ogba, Lagos, has discharged Miss Comfort Emmanson from charges of unruly behavior and assault, following a dramatic turn of events sparked by the Federal Government’s intervention. The decision came just hours after the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus...
Judiciary
By JOY ADARA, Abuja- Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Federal Government to finalize its case against former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), by September, in a trial over alleged illegal firearms possession and money laundering that has dragged on for 10 years. Justice Peter...
Five Rivers State indigenes—Fredrick Ededeh, Benita Samuel, Jane Madubuike, Boma Aggo, and Comfort Agbom—have filed a lawsuit against the Federal Government, Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC), and Sole Administrator, retired Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, to halt the local government elections scheduled for August 30. The plaintiffs, represented by...
Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday directed that five individuals accused of perpetrating the June 5, 2022, attack on St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State, be held in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS). Presiding Judge Emeka Nwite, serving as a vacation judge,...
Ekiti State High Court in Ado-Ekiti on Friday upheld the validity of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) ward congress held across the state’s 177 wards on March 15, 2025. In a landmark ruling, Justice Bamidele Omotosho also invalidated a new delegates’ list submitted by the party’s national leadership and...
Abuja High Court has imposed a N85 million fine on Zenith Bank Plc for unlawfully freezing the account of Abhulimen & Co, relying on an invalid court order issued by a Magistrate Court lacking jurisdiction. Justice S. U. Bature, in a judgment delivered on July 16, 2025, ordered the...
In a chilling case in Enugu, 40-year-old suspected ritualist Obi-Levi Obieze, known locally as “E dey play, E dey Show,” was arraigned on Wednesday at the Enugu North Magistrates’ Court alongside Sebastine Offor, 64, and Ejike Odinwamkpa, 38. The trio faced a three-count charge of conspiracy, kidnapping, and murder....
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos- A businessman Ajah Johnson Uchenna and his wife Rosemary Uchenna were on Monday 4th August 2025 sentenced to a total of 22 and a half years imprisonment by Justice Deinde Dipeolu of the Federal High Court 8 in Lagos for dealing in illicit drugs. The...
Court of Appeal in Akure has affirmed Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa’s victory in the November 16, 2024, Ondo State governorship election. This decision reinforces the earlier ruling of the Ondo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which validated Aiyedatiwa’s election. The November 2024 governorship election in Ondo State saw Aiyedatiwa emerge...
By OLA MODUPE , Lagos- Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court, sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Tuesday, July 30, 2025, refused a fresh bail application filed by Fred Ajudua, who is standing trial for allegedly defrauding a Palestinian businessman, Zad Abu Zalaf, of $1,043,000. At the resumed...
Dangote Petroleum Refinery has officially withdrawn its ₦100 billion lawsuit against the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), and five other petroleum companies. The case, which was filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja, was formally discontinued following a...
Federal High Court in Abuja has granted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and former Adamawa State Governor Murtala Nyako until October 16, 2025, to reach an out-of-court settlement in the alleged N29 billion fraud case or face a full trial. During Friday’s hearing, Justice Peter Lifu expressed...
Adeshina Fasasi, a witness for the defense, testified on Thursday before the Federal High Court in Abuja that an analysis of suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari’s call records showed no communication with any phone number associated with a suspected cocaine dealer, referred to as Mike Coke. Fasasi,...
International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued prison sentences to two former leaders of the predominantly Christian Anti-Balaka militia in the Central African Republic (CAR) for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the 2013-14 civil war. In a statement released on Thursday, the ICC announced that Alfred Yekatom...
Federal High Court in Abuja has postponed the trial of social media influencer Martins Otse, widely known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), accused of cyberbullying actresses Tonto Dikeh and Iyabo Ojo, among others, to December 2. The adjournment was announced on Thursday by Justice Musa Liman after addressing other cases on...
Federal High Court in Abuja has invalidated the Corporate Affairs Commission’s (CAC) unauthorized replacement of the Incorporated Trustees of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), ruling that the action violated legal provisions. Delivering the judgment, Justice Obiora Egwuatu declared that the CAC’s decision to alter ALGON’s trustees...
Federal High Court in Abuja has ruled that former Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam and his ex-Commissioner for Finance, Omadachi Oklobia, must answer to charges of alleged N3.1 billion fraud. Delivering his ruling on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, Justice Peter Lifu dismissed the defendants’ no-case submission, stating that the...
By OLA MODUPE, Lagos- Federal High Court in Lagos has struck out a 13-count charge filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against the Chairman of Honeywell Group, Oba Otudeko and three others. The charges were withdrawn following a comprehensive review of the representations submitted by all...
Federal High Court on Monday in Kano dismissed a lawsuit initiated by Abdullahi Abbas of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and another plaintiff, aimed at halting statutory allocations to Kano State’s 44 Local Government Areas (LGAs). The suit, filed through their counsel Sunday Olowomoran on November 1, 2024, named...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja- Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja, on Monday, July 21, 2025, rejected the application of a former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Adoza Bello, for the release of his passport to enable him travel to the United Kingdom for medical treatment. The...